1819286 - Firefox slows down abysmally after a week or so, having hundreds of tabs open (thousands of tabs in total)
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NEW (davidp99) in Core - Widget: Win32. Last updated 2024-11-12.

Does anyone have this issue were firefox becomes slow if left open for a long time. In my case after a couple of weeks rendering becomes slow and when I use youtube for example if is laggy, just trying to change volume taka few second to show the volume bar. It also happens to my laptop at work. I have around 30 tabs open.

  • .Donuts@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    If it’s related to the thread you posted then try Nightly?

    That’s only in Nightly right now, unfortunately; it won’t make it out to Release until v134.

    Also, can I ask why you’d leave your browser open for weeks? Just curious of the use case. The thread mentions having 5700-7000 open tabs, and I can’t fathom why someone would do that. It’s not like the websites disappear if you close the tab. Nothing to do with the problem though, you don’t have to answer.

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      Also, can I ask why you’d leave your browser open for weeks?

      This just begs the question, Why do you not leave it open?

      • orcrist@lemm.ee
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        12 days ago

        Maybe because the software is designed to make that very practical and smooth. You also might point to hardware limitations, should you have a machine that doesn’t have a lot of RAM, or perhaps you might point to simplicity, and that you don’t want to have a cluttered taskbar.

        But it’s kind of ironic that you would ask why not leave software open on a post where the problem was specifically mentioned as one that is solved by closing the software.

        • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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          12 days ago

          So perhaps another anecdote is in order. I currently running three instances of Firefox (different profiles) on a low-end Celeron laptop. I don’t usually shut them except sometimes by mistake. What I do do is close tabs, if only for simplicity’s sake (because idle tabs are unloaded from memory anyway). I’m experiencing no sluggishness issues.

      • .Donuts@lemmy.world
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        12 days ago

        To conserve resources / power? Like when I’m done using an app, I close it. When I’m done reading a website or using online banking, I close it. I don’t leave my email, games or music open after I’m doing using them either. I actually turn off / sleep my entire device when I’m done using it, but that’s not what my curiosity is about.